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Mbole language

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Mbole
Lombole
Native toDR Congo
RegionTshopo District
EthnicityMbole
Native speakers
(100,000 cited 1971)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mdq
Glottologmbol1247
D.11[2]

Mbole is a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is spoken by the Mbole people, with a population of about 100,000 as of 1971 living in the Tshopo District, southwest of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Mbole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online